bailiwick
noun/ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk/
Etymology
From bailie (“bailiff”) and wick (“dwelling”), from Old English wīc.
- inherited from wīc
Definitions
The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
- The Bailiwick of Jersey.
A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
- I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
- Jack is full of these insights, thoughtful turns of phrase from a character whose perpetual struggle between wastrel and righteous is all too familiar a bailiwick for the universal insecurities of the human condition.
- This “feminist chortling” (as she calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for bailiwick. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA